Letters from an American

This weekend, Dan Frosch, Patrick Thomas, and Andrea Peterson of the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is ending its annual report on household food security. Those reports began in the 1990s to help state and local officials distribute food assistance. Last year’s report found that 18 million U.S. households experienced food insecurity during 2023. In a statement, the Department of Agriculture said: “These redundant, costly, politicized and extraneous studies do nothing more than fearmonger.”

Not sure there’s a better sign that this administration doesn’t care at all about people struggling than this. Cut the reporting, cut the assistance, and no one is the wiser—except, you know, the people going hungry. You can’t fix what you don’t measure, and this administration has no interest in doing either.